The worst comment I got was about a week after I had my son because he was 10 days early and I went to the cleaners and the attendant asked why I wasn't at the hospital having the baby, so I just pointed at the car and say well he is already there, in his defense I did looked still pregnant.

One of my best friends is due a week after me. We were at a party recently, fielding reactions from people encountering the two of us (both well into our third trimesters) and it was exhausting. "WHOA! Look at you two!" "Yep. Look at us. Large and sober. It's like the circus came to town!" ...

I'm not sure exactly when it happened but somewhere over the past few months, Mazzy stopped scribbling and started drawing faces. WARNING: If you don't want to hear a parent brag unashamedly about their child, I advise you to STOP READING NOW. I'm not comfortable throwing words like "artistic...

Mazzy finally started preschool yesterday. I tried to tell the administration that having school start so late was bad for my blogging schedule ("But everyone will have already published their back-to-school posts and I'll be behind the curve!") but they didn't seem to care. What does Mazzy ...

Okay. Let's get real here for a second. How often do you wash your favorite pair of jeans? (I really hope the answer is "almost never" or else I am going to feel way more disgusting than the average person.) In my normal life (that would be pre-baby-bump), I have about fifteen pairs of jeans ...

Mike and I finally told Mazzy about the baby. You'd think with my stomach looking like it's housing an award-winningly large watermelon, she would have caught on by now, but apprently, my daughter isn't nearly as bright as I gave her credit. The news went over rather uneventfully. We asked Ma...

My son was a great sleeper when baby and when he moved to a toddler bed I just had to sit next to him while not talking or answering questions, sometimes I was sleep before he was but that was encouraging for him, and then I would move to my bed.
Now that he is 6 he is worse than ever, I have to hug him so he can actually fall sleep, great thing that he is sleep in less than two minutes so I am free very quick.

We switched Mazzy to a "big girl bed" about two weeks ago. It was not something I wanted to do— Mazzy slept perfectly well in her crib and never once attempted to get out— but I was told we had to transition her before the baby arrived or else she would harbor negative feelings against her li...

On Sunday, we took Mazzy to visit the capital of children, the mecca of toddlerdom, the epicenter of fun for all earthlings under five. We braved the hoards of parents wielding double strollers chasing their bathing-suit-clad breathren through a muppet-themed parking lot and entered a world c...